Our History

The roots of Windsor Law stretch back over 150 years to the founding of Assumption College in 1857. Starting in 1919, this Jesuit institution began a close affiliation with the University of Western Ontario, eventually becoming an independent university in 1953.

By 1963, Assumption University transitioned into a non-denominational university, the University of Windsor. The UWindsor Faculty of Law was founded four years later and welcomed its first class in 1968.

Windsor Law has grown dramatically since those early years, reaching an annual enrollment of 600 students and 32 full-time professors. In nearly five decades, Windsor Law has earned distinction among law schools for our emphases on access to justice, community service and U.S.-Canadian law.